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No. 10-4713
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence.
Terry L. Wooten, District Judge.
(4:07-cr-00485-TLW-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
August 4, 2011
Michael
Chesser,
Aiken,
South
Carolina,
for
Appellant.
William N. Nettles, United States Attorney, Robert F. Daley,
Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Columbia, South Carolina,
for Appellee.
PER CURIAM:
Kenneth
Glenn
Hinson
was
convicted
of
unlawful
in
connection
Guidelines
Manual
discretion
varying
in
with
2K2.1(b)(6)
departing
upward
another
pursuant
felony,
(2009),
upward
under
to
U.S.C.
18
USSG
U.S.
and
Sentencing
abused
4A1.3,
3553(a)
its
p.s.
and
(2006).
We
affirm.
A
sentence
is
reviewed
for
reasonableness
under
an
Id.;
see United States v. Lynn, 592 F.3d 572, 575 (4th Cir. 2010).
The court must first ensure that the district court did not
commit any significant procedural error, such as failing to
properly calculate the applicable Guidelines range, failing to
consider
the
18
U.S.C.A.
3553(a)
(West
2000
&
Supp.
2006)
U.S.
at
51.
If
the
sentence
is
free
of
Gall,
significant
for
four-level
USSG
firearm.
means
any
federal,
punishable
by
imprisonment
regardless
of
whether
conviction obtained.
state,
or
for
term
criminal
local
offense[]
exceeding
charge
was
one
brought,
. . .
year,
or
A firearm is
facilitated,
offense.
or
had
the
potential
of
facilitating,
the
. . . .
163.
The district court determined that the enhancement was
warranted because Hinson had testified under oath at his state
trial on other charges that he was a drug dealer and that he
fled his home because he thought law enforcement officers knew
about four pounds of marijuana he had stored in his basement.
In addition, the district court considered Hinsons post-arrest
statement to law enforcement officers that he always had a gun
with him.
we
conclude
that
the
district
court
did
not
clearly
err
in
finding that Hinson was selling marijuana and that the firearm
he
possessed
had
the
potential
to
facilitate
that
activity.
we
review
the
district
courts
departure
by
to
the
extent
of
the
divergence
from
the
sentencing
Under
USSG
4A1.3(a)(1),
the
district
under-represents
4
the
seriousness
of
the
defendants
criminal
history
or
the
likelihood
sentences
category.
not
used
in
that
the
computing
the
criminal
history
See
and
sufficiently
argues
battery
serious
that
and
to
the
prior
cocaine
warrant
offenses,
aggravated
trafficking,
departure
were
not
because
the
offense
and
the
cocaine
trafficking
offense
involved
the assault and battery does not lessen its seriousness; the
presentence report states that Hinson struck another man with a
car
jack.
Moreover,
Hinson
5
appears
to
understate
the
appeal
does
not
disclose
the
exact
The record in
quantity
of
cocaine
We
conclude
that
the
district
court
reasonably
of
under-represented
recidivism.
reasonable.
his
Thus,
criminal
the
history
decision
to
and
his
depart
was
the
variance
was
both
procedurally
Hinson maintains
and
substantively
further
mischaracterizes
court
noted
the
Hinsons
increase
courts
in
reasons
propensity
to
his
for
sentence.
the
commit
variance.
new
crimes
Hinson
The
after
We are satisfied
resulting
sentence
was
procedurally
and
substantively
reasonable.
We
district
facts
court.
and
materials
therefore
legal
before
We
affirm
dispense
contentions
the
court
the
with
sentence
oral
imposed
argument
are
adequately
and
argument
by
the
because
the
presented
would
not
in
the
aid
the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED